Joe Wright Quotes
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
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Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.
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I am a fan of Botox.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.
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It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.
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I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
